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My boyfriend, who despite my occasional bitching about on LJ, I am quite fond of, yet have no intentions of ever marrying, forwarded to me, with no comment, an email that his grandmother sent him. It said only, "Is this the year for the RING??????"
I laughed for a good five minutes.
In retrospect, I should have used the opportunity to fuck with him, and faked that I thought he was obliquely proposing.
(This is not meant as a derogatory comment on marriage, btw. I have many friends that are happily married, in traditional or open marriages, and I am sincerely glad for all of them. Maybe I spent too much time divorcing people, or maybe I'm too obstinate, or maybe I don't like to compromise, or maybe I'm just messed up, but I long ago decided marriage isn't for me. I'm generally quite happy with my current relationship, and I'm generally quite happy with living alone and having lots of space/time to myself. I'm mostly highly amused because my family has more-or-less accepted that I've chosen to live my life childless and unmarried, yet he, despite an even longer track record of non-traditional family life, still gets such direct pressure, from Grandma, no less.)
I laughed for a good five minutes.
In retrospect, I should have used the opportunity to fuck with him, and faked that I thought he was obliquely proposing.
(This is not meant as a derogatory comment on marriage, btw. I have many friends that are happily married, in traditional or open marriages, and I am sincerely glad for all of them. Maybe I spent too much time divorcing people, or maybe I'm too obstinate, or maybe I don't like to compromise, or maybe I'm just messed up, but I long ago decided marriage isn't for me. I'm generally quite happy with my current relationship, and I'm generally quite happy with living alone and having lots of space/time to myself. I'm mostly highly amused because my family has more-or-less accepted that I've chosen to live my life childless and unmarried, yet he, despite an even longer track record of non-traditional family life, still gets such direct pressure, from Grandma, no less.)